jack
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“I’m a little scared of being perceived as a jack of all trades and a master of none,” Sloan admits with a laugh on a recent morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I don’t think you should jack up rates into this environment right now,” said John Luke Tyner, head of fixed-income and a portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors, on Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
As he spoke, the pump jack ground to a halt behind him—another power failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I lay panting like a wounded duck, quietly cursing as I inched the jack forward under an axle that I had to find by feel, since it was under water.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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